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Our series of three Symposia on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science is over. Thanks to everyone who contributed, participated, helped!

[Nature Human Behaviour @NatureHumBehav]

People's biases in social perception can be explained by the structure of their social networks, without assuming biased cognition shows a new paper in NHB by @withsarm @fariba_k @metrohm @clauwa @socph @sfiscience https://t.co/ybqjEU94xj

[Rossano Schifanella @rschifan]

Opportunity of a 1-year (extendible) postdoc/research assistant position @unito in collaboration with @net_science to study team dynamics and its relation to performance on a large-scale dataset. Link to the application form coming up soon, please, DM me for more details.

[Euro CSS @euro_css]

Thank you to the VolkswagenStiftung, keynote speakers, discussants, doctoral consortium mentors, dataset challenge chairs, participants, sponsors and everyone who helped at the #eurocss. Without you, we would not be able to have such a fantastic symposium. Have a safe trip home!

[Euro CSS @euro_css]

The last keynote of #eurocss: @HelenMargetts on hate speech with Simon Hug as discussant

[Euro CSS @euro_css]

Some impressions from #eurocss Poster Session II

[Euro CSS @euro_css]

Andreas Flache's #eurocss keynote From Consensus to Polarization and Back. Creating a Dialogue Between Abstract Computational Models and Empirical Data, with @CarterButts as discussant

[Euro CSS @euro_css]

Simon Schweighofer, #eurocss Dataset Challenge Chair, wrapped up the 1st day of the main symposium yesterday with his talk A Weighted Balance Model of Opinion Hyperpolarization

[Euro CSS @euro_css]

Our #eurocss Doctoral Consortium mentors, @JurgenPfeffer gave a short talk yesterday on real-world impact of online manipulation and @viktoria_sp talked about polarized Ukraine 2014

[Euro CSS @euro_css]

Also watch out for our best presentation award sponsored by @SAGEOceanTweets and the best poster award sponsored by @epj_ds which will both be awarded during the closing session at the end of this day. #eurocss

[Euro CSS @euro_css]

The last day of #eurocss has started with the keynote by Andreas Flache. We are looking forward to more exciting talks, posters and discussions today!

[Euro CSS @euro_css]

This morning at #eurocss, Alice Marwick @alicetiara gave a keynote "Disinformation in Context: Understanding Qualitative Approaches to Social Media Manipulation", with Lena Frischlich @lenafrescamente as discussant

[Euro CSS @euro_css]

#eurocss participants are captivated by the diverse talks featuring new methods, new data or new theoretical ideas on polarization in modern democracies

[Euro CSS @euro_css]

Axel Bruns (@snurb_dot_info) acts as discussant for the keynote of Philip Leifeld

[Euro CSS @euro_css]

@PhilipLeifeld talked about "Polarization and the Evolution of Coalitions in Public Policy Debates" in his #eurocss keynote

[Euro CSS @euro_css]

And if you want to read more from @snurb_dot_info's work there's his book "Are filter bubbles real" https://t.co/cjH78PkWfb #EuroCSS

[Euro CSS @euro_css]

Now @snurb_dot_info is our discussant for @PhilipLeifeld's keynote, stressing the importance of looking at communicative networks, independent of platforms #eurocss

[Pablo Aragón @elaragon]

More tools to check: the Discourse Network Analyzer by @PhilipLeifeld that allows qualitative content analysis with network export facilities #eurocss https://t.co/50ZdF0KFQx

[Euro CSS @euro_css]

More about @PhilipLeifeld's work in his book "Policy Debates as Dynamic Networks: German Pension Politics and Privatization Discourse." https://t.co/vULwSSJq4O #eurocss

[Helen Margetts @HelenMargetts]

Happy to be headed to #eurocss in Zurich, to hear/talk about polarisation, populism, radicalisation - and hate ( put that way it sounds a bit grim but I’m sure it won’t be!)

[Social Informatics 2022 (#SocInfo22) @socinfo22]

#SocInfo19 program is available now on https://t.co/slOfMaFWR7
We have six sessions covering topics ranging from #Demography, #Migration and #Politics to #SocialMedia, #Inequality and #Bias thanks to the great contributions of authors from different disciplines.
See you in Doha!